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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1644.

Events[edit]

April 15 – The second Globe Theatre is demolished by the Puritan government to make room for housing.^[1]
November 23 – The publication in London of Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England.^[2]
December (end) – English Puritan controversialist Hezekiah Woodward is questioned for two days about "scandalous" pamphlets.^[3]
The publication of The Bloody Tenet of Persecution marks the start of a major controversy between Roger Williams and John Cotton on religious tolerance in a Calvinist context. The controversy plays out through a series of works issued by both men in the coming years, through to Williams' The Bloody Tenet Yet More Bloody (1652).

New books[edit]

Prose[edit]

John Milton
- Areopagitica (tract against censorship)^[2]
- Of Education
Roger Williams – The Bloody Tenet of Persecution^[4]
Francisco de Quevedo
- Vida de Marco Bruto
- Vida de San Pablo Apóstol
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg – Vida del santo padre y gran siervo de Dios el beato Francisco de Borja
René Descartes – Principia Philosophiae^[5]
Marin Mersenne – Cogitata physico-mathematica
Evangelista Torricelli – Opera geometrica^[6]
Giulio Strozzi (editor) – Le glorie della signora Anna Renzi romana (published in Venice; a tribute to Anna Renzi, the "first diva")^[7]

Drama[edit]

Lope de Vega – Fiestas del Santísimo Sacramento
Pierre Corneille – Le Menteur
Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland – Virtue's Triumph^[8]

Births[edit]

August 6 – Louise de la Vallière, French royal mistress, subject of a Dumas novel (died 1710)
October 2 – François-Timoléon de Choisy, French memoirist (died 1724)
Unknown dates
- Matsuo Bashō (松尾芭蕉), Japanese poet (died 1694)
- Elinor James, English pamphleteer (died 1719)

Deaths[edit]

January 30 – William Chillingworth, English religious controversialist (born 1602)^[9]
March 5 – Ferrante Pallavicino, Italian satirist (born 1615)^[10]
March 8 – Xu Xiake (徐霞客), Chinese travel writer and geographer (born 1587)
September 7 – Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio, Italian historian (born 1579)^[11]
September 8 – Francis Quarles, English poet (born 1592)^[12]
November 10 – Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish dramatist and novelist (born 1579)
November 21 – Raphael Sobiehrd-Mnishovsky, Czech lawyer and writer (born 1580)

References[edit]

^ "The Old Globe Theater History and Timeline". Retrieved 2012-10-16.
^ ^a ^b Kekewich, Margaret (1994). Princes and peoples : France and British Isles, 1620-1714 : an anthology of primary sources. Manchester New York: Manchester University Press in association with the Open University. p. 2. ISBN 9780719045738.
^ Greengrass, M. (2004). "Woodward, Hezekiah (1591/2–1675)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29945. Retrieved 2013-10-25. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
^ Cogley, Richard (1999). John Eliot's mission to the Indians before King Philip's War. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. p. 271. ISBN 9780674475373.
^ Baigrie, Brian (1996). Picturing knowledge : historical and philosophical problems concerning the use of art in science. Toronto, Ont: University of Toronto Press. p. ix. ISBN 9780802074393.
^ Danilo Capecchi (11 May 2012). History of Virtual Work Laws: A History of Mechanics Prospective. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 481. ISBN 978-88-470-2056-6.
^ John Whenham (1982). Duet and Dialogue in the Age of Monteverdi. UMI Research Press. p. 279. ISBN 978-0-8357-1313-9.
^ Tom Cain, ed., The Poems of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland: from the Fulbeck, Harvard, and Westmorland Manuscripts, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2001.Page 27
^ Christopher Baker (2002). Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-313-30827-7.
^ The Encyclopedia Americana: A Universal Reference Library Comprising the Arts and Sciences ... Commerce, Etc. Scientific American Compiling Dpt. 1905. p. 129.
^ John Evelyn (2000). The Diary of John Evelyn: 1620-1649. Clarendon Press. p. 379.
^ Baker, Christopher (2002). Absolutism and the scientific revolution, 1600-1720 : a biographical dictionary. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. p. 313. ISBN 9780313308277.

[1] "The Old Globe Theater History and Timeline". Retrieved 2012-10-16.

[censor-2] Kekewich, Margaret (1994). Princes and peoples : France and British Isles, 1620-1714 : an anthology of primary sources. Manchester New York: Manchester University Press in association with the Open University. p. 2. ISBN 9780719045738.

[3] Greengrass, M. (2004). "Woodward, Hezekiah (1591/2–1675)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29945. Retrieved 2013-10-25. (subscription or UK public library membership required)

[4] Cogley, Richard (1999). John Eliot's mission to the Indians before King Philip's War. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. p. 271. ISBN 9780674475373.

[5] Baigrie, Brian (1996). Picturing knowledge : historical and philosophical problems concerning the use of art in science. Toronto, Ont: University of Toronto Press. p. ix. ISBN 9780802074393.

[6] Danilo Capecchi (11 May 2012). History of Virtual Work Laws: A History of Mechanics Prospective. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 481. ISBN 978-88-470-2056-6.

[7] John Whenham (1982). Duet and Dialogue in the Age of Monteverdi. UMI Research Press. p. 279. ISBN 978-0-8357-1313-9.

[8] Tom Cain, ed., The Poems of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland: from the Fulbeck, Harvard, and Westmorland Manuscripts, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2001.Page 27

[9] Christopher Baker (2002). Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-313-30827-7.

[10] The Encyclopedia Americana: A Universal Reference Library Comprising the Arts and Sciences ... Commerce, Etc. Scientific American Compiling Dpt. 1905. p. 129.

[11] John Evelyn (2000). The Diary of John Evelyn: 1620-1649. Clarendon Press. p. 379.

[12] Baker, Christopher (2002). Absolutism and the scientific revolution, 1600-1720 : a biographical dictionary. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. p. 313. ISBN 9780313308277.

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